Happy B-Day Jam!!

Enbridge lost a Master electrician due to an arc flash. If you are close enough to the arc and the available energy is sufficent, even with the suit its adios amigo. Basically at that point the suit just allows you to have an open casket funeral. Not only is the heat and molten copper a danger, but also the pressure wave from the arc blast which can be as high as 2000/psi per square inch.

Here is a link to an actual arc flash. You can see the technician cranking (racking) the breaker or motor contactor either in or out, I’m not sure. Make sure to click on the more info link to read a more exact explaination of what happens. Needless to say Pucker factor very high!

Arc flashes are pretty serious hazards, aren’t they? I don’t know a ton about it but one of my Outlaws (refuse to call them in-laws) is an electrical engineer and does a lot of work trying to come up with ways to prevent and educate on it. Sounds pretty dangerous!!

Please join me in wishing a very happy birthday to the venerable Synaptic Jam. Technically it’s not till tomorrow, but hey, it’s 5’oclock somwhere in the world, right?!

And for you newer Junkies, SynapticJam has a long and illustrious history here in the Siglerverse. He is the first winner of the Siglerism Heroic Infected Titan(or S.H.I.T) award, he is intimately connected to the PUV James Keeling and he is a high ranking Crack Hit member here on this site.